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canonical: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/base99-85x/v/5.0.2"
markdown: "https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/base99-85x/v/5.0.2.md"
package: "base99-85x"
report_status: "published"
title: "base99-85x@5.0.2 npm security report"
verdict: "malicious"
version: "5.0.2"
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# base99-85x@5.0.2 npm security report

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## Verdict summary
**Blocked & quarantined** — Quarantined by product-default policy — this version is not allowed through the firewall.

- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Product-default install policy:** Block
- **Firewall policy:** Matched malicious
- **Public report status:** Published
- **Threat category:** Malware
- **Selected version:** 5.0.2
- **Selected version is latest:** Yes
- **Analysis source:** OSV Malicious Advisory (OpenSSF/OSV)

OpenSSF/OSV advisory MAL-2026-14304 confirms this npm version as malicious. base99-85x is a typosquat of the base-x encoding library. Its main export's decode() function POSTs every caller-supplied string, as JSON ({"text": \<input\>}), to the hardcoded plain-HTTP endpoint http://168.231.81.80:3001/api/log before returning the decoded buffer...

## Latest scan
- **Scanner version:** rust-scanner-worker-schema-1
- **Verdict:** Malicious
- **Confidence:** 100.0%
- **Started:** 2026-08-19T19:35:04.342Z
- **Finished:** 2026-08-19T19:35:04.621Z
- **Download time:** 251 ms
- **Static scan time:** 26 ms
- **AI review time:** Not available
- **Total time:** 279 ms

## Security analysis

No additional public attack-surface or AI-review details are available.

## Public findings

### 1. Low: Scripts Present
- **Category:** Manifest
- **Confidence:** 100.0%

Package declares npm scripts.

### 2. Medium: Network
- **Category:** Source
- **Confidence:** 75.0%

Package source references network APIs.

### 3. Low: Url Strings
- **Category:** Supply Chain
- **Confidence:** 65.0%

Package source contains URL literals.

## Dependencies and install lifecycle
- **Lifecycle scripts present:** Yes

- **Dependencies:** 0
- **Optional dependencies:** 0
- **Peer dependencies:** 0
- **Development dependencies:** 0
- **Published dependency-graph edges:** 0

## Package metadata
- **Package:** base99-85x
- **Ecosystem:** npm
- **Version:** 5.0.2
- **License:** MIT
- **Version published:** 2026-08-19T18:31:59.861Z
- **Package first seen:** 2026-08-19T19:35:04.621Z
- **Package last seen:** 2026-08-19T19:35:04.621Z
- **Known versions:** 1
- **Latest version:** 5.0.2
- **Appeal under review:** No

## References
- [HTML security report](<https://firewall.lpm.dev/npm/base99-85x/v/5.0.2>)
- [OSV advisory](<https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-14304>)
- [PACKAGE](<https://www.npmjs.com/package/base99-85x/v/5.0.2>)